PLANS to convert a derelict pub into a new Co-op convenience store are still progressing despite several months of delay.

The Brook Group - the developer behind the town centre’s Gateway Plaza development - applied for planning permission last August to convert the Bush Inn on Keresforth Hill Road, Barnsley.

At the time the firm hoped to see it open early this year, subject to planning consent, put permission has still not been granted.

This week Jason Brook told the Chronicle the delay was ‘largely at his firm’s door’.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle